HTML History

I personally found the broad strokes conerning the history of HTML in Module 9 a learning moment that I greatly enjoyed. Here are a few facts I learnt from the readings.

• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) was initially developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.
• Originally developed internally at The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN.
• Officially declared the standard in 1997 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with HTML 3.2.
• HTML5 is the current standard as of late 2014.
• Since 2019 the Web Hypertext Application Techonology Working Group (WHATWG) has been the sole publisher of HTML standards.

It is also worth noting that the W3C has encouraged styling HTML via an external CSS stylesheet as opposed to presentational HTML since 1997. This site was styled with an external style sheet instead of inline or internal CSS. While internal CSS may have been more common on the sites from the era this project is based on, it is external for the sake of the deveolper's sanity.